Science Files (New ed)

A pack of six titles studying wood, metals, glass, plastics, textiles, and rocks and minerals.

Each volume examines where a material comes from, and how it is extracted, purified, designed, manufactured and recycled.

The titles explore the material's properties and the technologies used to shape it into products used in everyday life.

Features include photographs, illustrations and detailed technical artwork; technology boxes showing the steps in a particular manufacturing process; historical facts explaining how processes were done in the past; and "Into the Future" sections which look at what advances may be made in the 21st century.